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OK JakeD, if you're feeling left out, go ahead and add your name to the list:

the previous failed republican't administration.
the current failed obstructionist republican'ts in Congress.
the treasonous and despicable MUSSOLINI COURT.
the misguided morons who voted for two terms of the worst governance of our Nation ever!

"I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either." -- Edward Zehr - (1936-2001) Columnist

37thandostreet..Maybe if you were here when G.W.Bush was president,to offer your help!!! our country would not be in such a mess...You seem to have all the answers as to what Obama should and should not do.This is America and we should all be sticking together to make things work, which is something that either party is doing. United we stand, divided we fall. We need more mature people in our government who are willing to work together.Both parties have too many criminals in office who are only thinking to get elected into office to fill their obscene pockets with our hard earned money. One is just as bad as the other.The thing we need more than anything is jobs so we can survive without the help of the completely corrupt immoral greedy government We do not want welfare........

We The People say blank Corporations and the corporatists who rode in on them! That includes:

the previous failed republican't administration.
the current failed obstructionist republican'ts in Congress.
the treasonous and despicable MUSSOLINI COURT.
the misguided morons who voted for two terms of the worst governance of our Nation ever!

The corporatist republicant's and their corporate puppet masters have already created a defacto corporatist state in 2000 and in two terms nearly destroyed the global economy. Our Nation has been brought to the very edge of the economic abyss by republican't corporatist arrogance, greed, and incompetence. Anyone who owned a 401k from 2000-2008 knows what republican't corporatist rule did for their future.

This why republican'ts have less credibility than used car salesmen.

We The People have had it with republican't "clunkers".

IMPEACH the MUSSOLINI COURT NOW!

The only thing supreme about this deviant partisan republican't court is its' Supreme Incompetence.

These supremely craven corporate handpuppets have usurped the future votes of all US Citizens and handed our Nations' future elections over to the self serving whims of global corporatism.

This judicial assault on our Constitutional Rights will not stand!

Like the previous administration it spawned, Roberts, Scalia, Alito, Kennedy, and Thomas, have proven to be the worst of the worst.

This abased court will live in infamy!

Because of the gravity of the crime against the Constitution committed by a gang of 5 right wing judicial outlaws on our Supreme Court, two critical action pages are now available:

By any fair legal definition, the decision yesterday by The Supreme Court 5 constitutes nothing less than an act of TREASON against the people of the United States.

"Thus corporations finally claimed the full rights enjoyed by individual citizens while being exempted from many of the responsibilities and liabilities of citizenship. Furthermore, in being guaranteed the same right to free speech as individual citizens, they achieved, in the words of Paul Hawken, 'precisely what the Bill of Rights was intended to prevent: domination of public thought and discourse.' The subsequent claim by corporations that they have the same right as any individual to influence the government in their own interest pits the individual citizen against the vast financial and communications resources of the corporation and mocks the constitutional intent that all citizens have an equal voice in the political debates surrounding important issues.": -- David C. Korten - Source: in his book, When Corporations Rule the World, 2001

The democrats and Obama have pretty much decided to mock and harass posters on this blog to the point at which rational discussions have almost ceased.

The health care bill has been reported to be dead - it has been wounded - at any point the House democrats could decided the Senate bill is better than nothing and pass it.

The other possibility is that Senator McConnell and Senator McCain have both said that the Republicans will agree to 80% of the bill - so sit down with them, figure out which 80% (is that 1600 pages?) - and then pass that with a whole bunch of Republican votes.

That idea would solve a great number of problems - including the need to hold together all the democrats - and all the things that Lieberman insists on having can be tossed out the window.

At some point - some night Reid must wake up and realize that compromising with Senator McCain is better than compromising with Lieberman ANYDAY.

Against that backdrop - Obama is attempting to pretend that he is a deficit hawk.

That is a little like someone going on a pie eating binge and then saying they are going to freeze the number of pies they eat at 10 per day.

But somehow, after pushing soooo hard for a year to create a MASSIVE GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE PROGRAM WITH UNCERTAIN TRILLION DOLLAR COSTS, after all that, Obama expects people to believe that he will lead the spending cuts in Washington.

AND the same anger that elected Scott Brown is the same anger that brought in Obama, and Obama is going to lead that anger.

What is Obama going to do now? Copy McCain's entire platform and position papers from last year, and adopt them as his own ???

It really is sad that the State of the Union is a week after the Massachusetts election - and that the administration and Obama have been talking gibberish all week long - funny how these things work out.

I really am concerned that the country is in the hands of these people - they have wasted all year on an agenda which the country did not want - and they could have been working on the economy.

CNN is trying to figure out where the stimulus money went - Obama surely doesn't know.

fair point, i made a mistake in saying "direct donations" to particular candidates. But my point still holds that Hugo Chavez and the Chinese Communist Party - by the virtue of owning corporations in the US - can now spend unlimited money running ads for or against particular candidates. And you won't know which corporations they are without a lot of research.

And sure, the US isn't my country and I don't have First Amendment rights in the US (at least unless I set up a business and open a US office!), but I've been following US politics closely since 1992, so you can't begrudge me the occasional comment. I don't make many. Feel free to comment on Irish politics in return!

By the way, you might not have noticed since I don't post that often, but I would consider myself as a supporter of the GOP, so don't be so quick to dismiss your foreign allies ;)

Try reading the actual Supreme Court decision. It did not impact the ban on corporations donating directly to candidates. It only allowed corporations to spend money to EXERCISE THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT to air campaign ads for (or in the case of Citizens United) against specific candidates. Don't worry, corporations still can't vote, they can't hold office. Perhaps you should let us worry about our own problems in this country?